Anyone have a baby that’s sensitive to noise?

So I’ve noticed that LO (little one) is pretty sensitive to noise. He pretty much can’t sleep if DS (dear son) is around at all or if I’m holding him and I talk at a normal volume. Very loud noises will make him cry (like today I shouted hello to a neighbor, and I also tore off a sheet of aluminum foil.) but some noises he’s ok with (like the vacuum or our dog barking.) Is this something I should be concerned about? Do they grow out of it? I’m worried about when he goes to daycare in two weeks, if he’ll be able to sleep at all ☹️

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My LO (little one) occasionally gets over stimulated by lights and sounds. Sometimes he is OK napping in the midst of everything, and sometimes he cries at every noise. It usually is when he's overtired.

My LO (little one) was/is the same way. I’ve notice that if I “introduce” him to the loud noise, he’s likely to get startled the next time. For example, I’ll hold him and speak cheerfully to him while making a smoothie from the blender, he sees me doing it and he knows where the noise is coming from now, so it’s less likely to startle him. Same with the ice maker on the fridge, it used to scare him but once he actually saw what was making the noise he hasn’t cried since. I just introduce him to loud noises that make him cry, it’s helped a lot.

My son is sensitive to “sudden” noises, my husband sneezing, babies crying at daycare. He’s been in daycare since last Monday so 7 days. He doesn’t sleep as much as at home, only about 30 min at a time. Daycare teachers say he just needs to get used to it. I’ve read it could take 2-3 weeks for them to adjust to the new environment, guess we’ll see.

Mine is the same way. He likes the vacuum and other things but sometimes will cry over a toilet flushing or our dog bark but it’s only sometimes so I think like you said, maybe overtired etc has to do with it. It seems like if he’s in a daze or caught off guard is when he’ll cry because it’s more of a scare/startle to them. I’m not too concerned since it’s not 24/7.

Mine also gets scared/cries when he hears a loud noise like sneezing, coughing etc. I’ve read it’s because they lack the experience to know the origin of the sound: we know what sneezing is and what it sounds like and that it's harmless, and the only thing they know is that something is loud and scary. My baby always looks at me trying to read my expression so I make sure to smile and talk to him cheerfully when it happens so that he knows there's nothing to be afraid of. It got better recently, he's not as sensitive anymore.

The noises like the vacuum and the dog barking that he is not scared of are probably because he started hearing them early on in the womb so they were already familiar to him. We noticed early on that our son reacted to the sound of the microwave opening and closing. We took him to church for the first time at 11.5 weeks and the sound of the organ seemed to scare him. Poor babes!

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